Franz von Tattenbach (Jesuit)

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Franz von Tattenbach (born January 17, 1910 in Munich ; † August 12, 1992 in Isny im Allgäu ) was a German Jesuit .

Life

After school and high school, Franz von Tattenbach entered the Jesuit order in 1929, studied philosophy and theology and went through the long, order-specific training. In 1940 he was ordained a priest.

From year to year, the anti-religious measures of the National Socialists restricted the effectiveness of the Jesuits. Meetings with the Gestapo and the SS were sometimes inevitable even for a declared opponent of National Socialism like Franz von Tattenbach, even if it was to obtain permission to visit prisoners . Helmuth James Graf von Moltke was arrested in January 1944 . At the request of Father Lothar König , Father von Tattenbach went to Peter Yorck von Wartenburg to find out how things were going with the Kreisau Circle . Tattenbach returned with the announcement that all work had come to a standstill.

When Alfred Delp was sentenced to death, Augustin Rösch sent Franz von Tattenbach from the St. Blasien college to Berlin. Father von Tattenbach visited his confrere on December 8, 1944, on the feast of the Immaculate Conception , in the prison in Tegel and, two months before his execution, took the last solemn vows of his order from Alfred Delp, who was handcuffed . Alfred Delp wrote from imprisonment to Franz von Tattenbach SJ on December 9, 1944: "Now the outer shackles no longer mean anything, since the Lord God the vincula amoris has honored me."

With Federal President Heuss in the Germanikum

From 1946 to 1948 Franz von Tattenbach worked as a pastor among the German prisoners of war in France. Afterwards he was spiritual at the seminaries in Freising (from 1949 to 1952) and in Freiburg (from 1960 to 1965), in the meantime, from 1953 to 1959, rector at the Pontificium Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum de Urbe in Rome . In 1960 Tattenbach was one of the organizers of the World Eucharistic Congress in Munich.

In 1965, Father von Tattenbach was appointed rector of the Berchmans College in Pullach . He ensured that the spirit of the aggiornamento of the Second Vatican Council , which had just ended , could also be effective in the training of the young Jesuits. He prepared the opening of the Berchmanskolleg for non-Jesuits, the state recognition as a "University of Philosophy" (so the name from 1971) and their move to Munich.

In 1970 his order sent Father von Tattenbach to Central America. In Costa Rica , together with Georg von Gaupp-Berghausen , he founded the Instituto Costarricense de Enseñanza Radiofónica (ICER) between 1970 and 1973 , the Instituto Guatemalteco de Educación Radiofónica (IGER) in Guatemala in 1979 and with Sor Marta Eugenia in Honduras Soto the Instituto Hondureño de Educación por Radio , Catholic radio schools. which brought him high esteem among the listeners.

Father von Tattenbach was a member of the Catholic student union K.St.V. Rheno-Bavaria Munich in the KV .

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Forstner: Interview with Prelate Dr. Alfred Läpple . In: Peter Pfister (ed.): Joseph Ratzinger and the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. Documents and pictures from church archives, contributions and memories . Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-7954-1914-1 , pp. 115–127, here p. 124.
  2. ^ Ger van Roon : Die Kreisauer, July 20, 1944 and the post-war development . In: Michael Salewski, Guntram Schulze-Wegener (ed.): War year 1944. In large and small (= historical communications of the Ranke Society, Supplement 12). Steiner, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-515-06674-8 . Pp. 145–160, here p. 153.
  3. ↑ Ruth Kiener-Flamm: Dome window of the Pater-Alfred-Delp-Chapel in Lampertheim . In: Reiner Albert, Roland Hartung, Günther Saltin (Red.): Alfred-Delp-Jahrbuch , ed. on behalf of the Alfred Delp Society Mannheim eV, year 2009. Lit, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-10148-8 , pp. 46–56, here p. 55.
  4. ^ Franz Schulte (ed.): Alfred Delp: Program and mission statement for today . Lit, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-0205-9 , p. 205.
  5. ↑ a b Winfried Becker: Alfred Delp SJ - Resistance from faith . In: Heinz Finger , Reimund Haas, Hermann-Josef Scheidgen (ed.): Local Church and Universal Church in History. Cologne Church History between the Middle Ages and the Second Vatican Council. Ceremony for Norbert Trippen on his 75th birthday . Böhlau, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-20801-1 , pp. 657-682, here p. 675.
  6. ↑ Peter Pfister (ed.): Experience community - celebrate the Eucharist. The World Eucharistic Congress 1960 in Munich (= exhibitions in the archives of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, Volume 10), Munich 2010, pp. 15–17.
  7. ↑ Rita Haub: Care for people is the focus - Father Franz von Tattenbach SJ . In this. (Ed.): Franz von Tattenbach SJ. The focus is on caring for people - An educator for Central America . Lahn-Verlag, Kevelaer 2010, pp. 12–40.
  8. ↑ Alicia Padilla Naranjo: The Beginnings of ICER in Costa Rica . In: Rita Haub (ed.): Franz von Tattenbach SJ. The focus is on caring for people - An educator for Central America . Lahn-Verlag, Kevelaer 2010, pp. 41–51.
  9. ↑ ¿Qué es el ICER? ( Memento of March 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Spanish, accessed July 11, 2010
  10. ↑ IHER - Historia ( Memento of 23 February 2009 at the Internet Archive ), Spanish, accessed on July 11 of 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Tattenbach, Franz von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious, Jesuit
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1992
Place of death Isny in the Allgäu